Sipan ( hy, Սիփան) is a village in the Alagyaz Municipality of the

Aragatsotn Province Aragatsotn ( hy, Արագածոտն, ) is a province ('' marz'') of Armenia. It is located in the western part of the country. The capital and largest city of the province is the town of Ashtarak. The Statistical Committee of Armenia reported i ...

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ' ...

Etymology

The village was previously known as ''Tamb'' (), ''Pamb'' (), ''Pambak'' ( or ), and ''Pamb Krdi'' (). It was renamed Sipan in 1978.

History

During the period of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

, the village was part of the

Alexandropol Uezd The Alexandropol uezd, known after 1924 as the Leninakan uezd, was a county (''uezd'') of the Erivan Governorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The ''uezd'' bordered the governorate's Etchmiadzin and Nor Bayazet ''uezds'' to t ...

of the

Erivan Governorate The Erivan Governorate was a province ('' guberniya'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, with its centеr in Erivan (present-day Yerevan). Its area was 27,830 sq. kilometеrs, roughly corresponding to what is now most of central A ...

, and became populated by Yazidi Kurds from the Kars region. In May 1918, the Ottomans crossed the river of Arpachay (Akhuryan) to wage a brief war against the Yerevan Republic. One column seized the city of

Alexandropol Gyumri ( hy, Գյումրի, ) is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country. By the end of the 19th century, when the city w ...

and advanced north towards

Mount Aragats Mount Aragats ( hy, Արագած, ) is an isolated four-peaked volcano massif in Armenia. Its northern summit, at above sea level, is the highest point of the Lesser Caucasus and Armenia. It is also one of the highest points in the Armenian ...

, where 80 Yazidis got massacred in Pampa Kurda (Sipan).

Demographics

The village is mostly populated by Yazidi Kurds.

Notable people

* Emerîkê Serdar

References

External links

* * Populated places in Aragatsotn Province Yazidi villages Kurdish settlements in Armenia Yazidi populated places in Armenia {{Aragatsotn-geo-stub